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BIBLIOTHERAPY

Date "BIBLIOTHERAPY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1919. (references)

"BIBLIOTHERAPY" is a common misspelling or typo for: Bibliotheca.


Specialty Definition: BIBLIOTHERAPY

DomainDefinition

Health

A form of supportive psychotherapy in which the patient is given carefully selected material to read. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: BIBLIOTHERAPY

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bibliotherapy for Bereaved Children: Healing Reading (reference)

  • Bibliotherapy Sourcebook (reference)

  • Children in Foster Care and Adoption: A Guide to Bibliotherapy (reference)

  • Read Two Books and Let's Talk Next Week: Using Bibliotherapy in Clinical Practice (reference)

  • Using Bibliotherapy in Clinical Practice: A Guide to Self-Help Books (Contributions in Psychology) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BIBLIOTHERAPY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bibliotherapy

53

bibliotherapy child

4

bibliotherapy book child

3

bibliotherapy standard

2

bibliotherapy book

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BIBLIOTHERAPY

Language Translations for "BIBLIOTHERAPY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

biblioterapi. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bibliotherapie. (various references)

   

French

  

bibliothérapie. (various references)

   

German

  

Bibliotherapie, Lesetherapie. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βιβλιοθεραπεία. (various references)

   

Italian

  

biblioterapia. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ibliotherapybay

   

Portuguese

  

biblioterapia. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BIBLIOTHERAPY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-b-e-h-i-i-l-o-p-r-t-y"

-2 letters: operability, probability.

-3 letters: bipolarity.

-4 letters: breathily, hyperbola.

-5 letters: aerolith, bathrobe, bilobate, earthily, heartily, heliport, hilarity, laborite, operably, partible, petiolar, pitiable, pitiably, plethora, polarity, portable, portably, probable, probably, prohibit, reptilia, rhyolite.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BIBLIOTHERAPY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 49 42 4C 49 4F 54 48 45 52 41 50 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    ..    -...    .-..    ..    ---    -    ....    .    .-.    .-    .--.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01001001 01000010 01001100 01001001 01001111 01010100 01001000 01000101 01010010 01000001 01010000 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#73 &#66 &#76 &#73 &#79 &#84 &#72 &#69 &#82 &#65 &#80 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0049 0042 004C 0049 004F 0054 0048 0045 0052 0041 0050 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36433646434954423952355059

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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